{"id":57768,"date":"2026-07-11T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=57768"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:32:15","slug":"londons-national-gallery-gifted-its-first-kauffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2026\/07\/londons-national-gallery-gifted-its-first-kauffman\/","title":{"rendered":"London&#8217;s National Gallery Gifted Its First Kauffman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_57769\" style=\"width: 291px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/N-6710-00-000003-wpu.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57769\" class=\"wp-image-57769 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/N-6710-00-000003-wpu-300x240.webp\" alt=\"An 18th century history painting showing Achilles disguised as a woman revealing his identity after picking up a sword.\" width=\"281\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/N-6710-00-000003-wpu-300x240.webp 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/N-6710-00-000003-wpu-768x613.webp 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/N-6710-00-000003-wpu.webp 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Achilles Discovered Among the Daughters of Lycomedes<\/em> by Angelica Kauffman<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">London\u2019s National Gallery has recently received an incredible new donation from Texas, including a mythological work by the eighteenth-century painter Angelica Kauffman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Born in Switzerland, Kauffman made her career as a painter primarily in Rome and London. She was highly regarded in her lifetime, gaining fame not only as one of the few women working professionally as a painter, but as a master of historical scenes, portraits, and landscapes. In 1768, she became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in London along with Benjamin West, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Her painting <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Achilles Discovered Among the Daughters of Lycomedes<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> is one of several works donated to the National Gallery by Richard and Luba Barrett, an art-collecting couple based in Dallas who are considered connoisseurs of Swiss art. Among the other works in their donation are <\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/images.fineartamerica.com\/images\/artworkimages\/mediumlarge\/1\/four-large-trees-alexandre-calame.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Four Large Trees<\/span><\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> by the nineteenth-century landscape painter Alexandre Calame and <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artrenewal.org\/secureimages\/artwork\/169\/1697\/61095\/7868f235-ca23-47a8-acce-520ee9bb1e03..jpg?mode=max&amp;width=800&amp;height=800&amp;format=JPEG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the 1885 portrait of Louis Montchal<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> by Ferdinand Hodler. In recent years, the Barretts have become well-known for their generosity. In 2018, <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/news.utdallas.edu\/philanthropy\/barrett-collection-of-swiss-art-gifted-to-the-university-of-texas-at-dallas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">they donated over four hundred works from their collection to the University of Texas at Dallas<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. It was the largest donation in UTD\u2019s history, and the largest gift of art ever given to the University of Texas system. The Barretts also promised to fund construction of a new museum to house their donation, which will be overseen by the university\u2019s O\u2019Donnell Institute of Art History. Their collection includes works by Swiss artists such as Caspar Wolf, F\u00e9lix Vallotton, Cuno Amiet, and Giovanni Giacometti (the father of Alberto and Diego).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Kauffman\u2019s <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Achilles<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> dates to around 1787, several years after she left London to reestablish her studio in Rome. It is believed that <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Achilles<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> is not a finished painting but a detailed study for a later work commissioned by the then-Empress of Russia, Catherine the Great. The empress had commissioned work from Kauffman <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">in the early 1780s, with\u00a0<em>Achilles<\/em> intended as a companion piece to<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS1C9Vsoq9MPXqTDWWXKD4VZ2GOvIwghH5UXzz-2hb2VMBJuPQDUU2LIX4&amp;s=10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Servius Tullius as a Child Asleep beneath the Miraculous Flame<\/span><\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Both the completed <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Achilles<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> and <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Servius Tullius<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> are currently held at the Scientific Research Museum at St. Petersburg\u2019s Russian Academy of Arts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The work depicts an important moment in the story of the Trojan War and in the life of Achilles. To prevent him from heeding Agamemnon\u2019s call to war, the sea nymph Thetis sends her son Achilles to the island of Skyros disguised as a girl, where he would hide at the court of King Lycomedes. In search of the lost prince, Odysseus arrives on the island prepared to trick Achilles into revealing himself. He disguises himself as a merchant, laying out his wares for the ladies of the court to inspect. While the other women reach for jewelry, cloth, and other trinkets, the disguised Achilles reaches for the sword and other weapons. Finally, Odysseus fully exposes Achilles\u2019s identity by having his men sound war horns in the distance to pretend they are under attack. Rather than show fear like the others, Achilles immediately brandishes the weapons to prepare for the impending danger. After revealing his identity, Achilles agrees to go off and fight at Troy. This episode in Achilles\u2019 life has been a popular subject for artists, including <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/49\/Anthonis_van_Dyck_werkstatt_-_Achilles_among_the_daughters_of_Lycomedes_6002295.jpg\/960px-Anthonis_van_Dyck_werkstatt_-_Achilles_among_the_daughters_of_Lycomedes_6002295.jpg'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Van Dyck<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/ec\/Poussin_Achille_parmi_les_filles_de_Lycom%C3%A8de_Boston.jpg\/960px-Poussin_Achille_parmi_les_filles_de_Lycom%C3%A8de_Boston.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Poussin<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, and <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0a\/Ulysses_finding_Achilles_at_the_Court_of_King_Lycomedes_by_Artemisia_Gentileschi_1641.jpg\/1280px-Ulysses_finding_Achilles_at_the_Court_of_King_Lycomedes_by_Artemisia_Gentileschi_1641.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Artemisia Gentileschi<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Kauffman herself had created <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/3c\/Angelica_Kauffmann_-_Ulysses_discovers_Achilles.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">a different take on the scene<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> in 1769, which she exhibited at the Royal Academy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Kauffman\u2019s <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Achilles<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> is the first oil painting by the artist since 1835 to enter a British national collection. Several dozen of her paintings are in museums and historic houses operated by the National Trust, but most are portraits rather than large-scale history paintings. <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Achilles Discovered Among the Daughters of Lycomedes<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> is now the only example of Kauffman\u2019s work at the National Gallery, and is currently on display there along with the two other paintings donated by the Barretts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London\u2019s National Gallery has recently received an incredible new donation from Texas, including a mythological work by the eighteenth-century painter Angelica Kauffman. Born in Switzerland, Kauffman made her career as a painter primarily in Rome and London. She was highly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2026\/07\/londons-national-gallery-gifted-its-first-kauffman\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":57769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[773,1510,105,65,203,1401,58,9,1351],"class_list":["post-57768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","tag-18th-century-art","tag-18th-century-swiss-art","tag-london","tag-museums","tag-mythology","tag-national-gallery","tag-old-masters","tag-rehs-galleries-news","tag-women-in-art-history"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>London&#039;s National Gallery Gifted Its First Kauffman - Rehs Galleries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a donation from Texas, the National Gallery has recently received its first painting by the 18th-century painter Angelica Kauffman.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2026\/07\/londons-national-gallery-gifted-its-first-kauffman\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"London&#039;s National Gallery Gifted Its First Kauffman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a donation from Texas, the National Gallery has recently received its first painting by the 18th-century painter Angelica Kauffman.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2026\/07\/londons-national-gallery-gifted-its-first-kauffman\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rehs Galleries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RehsGalleriesInc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-07-11T14:00:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/N-6710-00-000003-wpu.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"639\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nathan Scheer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nathan Scheer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/londons-national-gallery-gifted-its-first-kauffman\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/londons-national-gallery-gifted-its-first-kauffman\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nathan Scheer\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1d33fd182b28afdad8fc3548ffe6bdc4\"},\"headline\":\"London&#8217;s National Gallery Gifted Its First Kauffman\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-11T14:00:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/londons-national-gallery-gifted-its-first-kauffman\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":668,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/londons-national-gallery-gifted-its-first-kauffman\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/N-6710-00-000003-wpu.webp\",\"keywords\":[\"18th Century Art\",\"18th Century Swiss Art\",\"London\",\"museums\",\"Mythology\",\"National Gallery\",\"Old Masters\",\"Rehs Galleries - Art World News\",\"women in art history\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Rehs 19th &amp; 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